Heat Wave

85 degrees in Santa Monica and no air conditioning. Sounds like a beach day.

Emmy Nominees

A few new things going on with the Prime Time Emmys this year, with the expansion of several of the major categories. And while most of it stayed the same with the academy inundating us with already overrated shows and performers, we got a few new surprises. Not necessarily good or bad, but surprises. Like a little Neil Patrick Harris love, with a supporting nomination to go along with his hosting gig. Also Family Guy and Flight of the Conchords got in, which were both surprising.
Also surprising, no Friday Night Lights love? seriously, was anyone watching the show this season? And is anyone watching Grey's Anatomy? because that show sucks and it got nominated. repeatedly. and I'm a chick! criticising Grey's! so you know it's bad. Apparently FNL is the new Wire - everyone knows it's the best show on TV, but it never gets nominated. I'm also concerned that this may be the year of the real Tina Fey backlash. We'll see how it goes, but I'm bracing myself for some true jadedness to come out soon.

Anyway, here's the list of nominees:
COMEDY

BEST COMEDY SERIES
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
How I Met Your Mother
The Office
30 Rock
Weeds

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
Rainn Wilson, The Office

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

DRAMA

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Big Love
Breaking Bad
Damages
Dexter
House
Lost
Mad Men

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Glenn Close, Damages
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Michael Emerson, Lost
William Hurt, Damages
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
William Shatner, Boston Legal
John Slattery, Mad Men

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rose Byrne, Damages
Hope Davis, In Treatment
Cherry Jones, 24
Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy

Go HERE for the full list.

Wilco AND Feist ?!?

It was like double your pleasure, double your fun night on Letterman last night with the musical guests of Wilco and their extra special guest singer, Feist! Just a cool summer jam with some ridiculous musical talent is all...

It's Finally Here!

What could bring the blog back after over a month long hiatus? July 15th, of course. No, this isn't just any typical day after Bastille Day` celebration. It's Harry Potter!!! The only dilemma is deciding what theater and what time to go see it. And yes, I'm full prepared to walk away slightly disappointed with the end result. I always am. The book is always better than the movie. But still, any chance to relive the summer escapism of Hogwarts is good enough for me.

anyone else is irrational excited as I am? Check out Daniel Radcliffe, Harry himself, on Letterman last night just as a little warm up for the movie.

Trailer Watch: The September Issue

I worked on this! ok, so not directly, but I paid people who worked on this. and since Devil Wears Prada has been running on repeat on FX all weekend I'm in the mood for another movie about a hard-assed, high powered fashionista.

MJ Tributes

The prisoners from the Philippines notorious for their re-enactment of the thriller routine have put together a new routine in order to pay their respects to the King Of Pop in possibly the coolest way ever - with a montage of some MJ classic songs Ben, I'll Be There, and We Are The World.

Beck covering The Velvet Underground and Nico. and hipsters rejoice! btw, the footage is meant to be grainy. just enjoy the song b/c it's great.

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico 'Sunday Morning' from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision

Another video from new personal favorite, Here We Go Magic

Shocking Twist - The Hills is Fake...(duh)

Here's the thing, we all know that The Hills is clearly fake and is full of producer manipulated and re-shot moments. but even I, the most cynical of reality show viewers was a little surprised to hear what Lauren Conrad had to say about Spencer's "apology" on The View today.



Oh reality tv, it's always a love-hate relationship with you. And where was the follow-up question about where they actually pulled her footage and dialogue from? that's some crack interviewing there, View ladies. But let's be honest, I got alot of questions for Lauren Conrad. Like does she let the person that actually wrote LA Candy come to the book signings with her too?

Trailer Watch: Fame

Time to get girly for a second, because a new dance movie trailer has been released! And usually I'm against remakes of classics just on principal (I mean, do we need another Karate Kid? I'm pretty sure they actually made replacing Mr. Miyagi against California state law at the last election. if they didn't, they totally should. will be as usefull as that high speed train thing we voted for. anyway....moving on to something applicable to non Californians). Where was I? Oh yeah, so I'm usually against remakes, but this one looks like it could rival Center Stage in it's ability to make me dance my way out the lobby and through the parking lot after it's over. And is that SYTYCD's Kherrington I spot in there?